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Power and the praise poem : southern African voices in history

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Power and the praise poem : southern African voices in history

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Vail, Leroy

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Mündliche Überlieferung, Mondelinge overlevering, Volkslied, Preisgedicht, Musique populaire -- Afrique australe, Tradition orale -- Afrique du Sud -- Histoire et critique, Südafrika Kontinent, Southern Africa, Südafrika, Oral traditions, Folk songs -- Africa, Southern -- History and criticism, Oral tradition -- Africa, Southern, Tradition orale -- Afrique australe -- Histoire et critique, Civilization, Western, Poètes africains -- 20e siècle -- Pensée politique et sociale, Chansons folkloriques -- Afrique australe -- Histoire et critique, Culture populaire -- Afrique australe -- Histoire -- 19e siècle, Oral tradition, Folk songs, South Africa, Poetes africains -- 20e siecle -- Pensee politique et sociale, Culture populaire -- Afrique australe -- Histoire -- 19e siecle, Mundliche Uberlieferung, Sudafrika Kontinent, Sudafrika
Publisher
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia ; London : James Currey
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Internet Archive
Language
English
Item Size
721.8M
xv, 345 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index

The invention of "oral man": anthropology, literary theory, and a western intellectual tradition -- "Maps of experience": songs and poetry in Southern Africa -- The development of forms: Ndebele royal praises -- The development of forms: the Chope Migodo -- Swazi royal praises: the invention of tradition -- "Paiva": the history of a song -- The possession of the dispossessed: songs as history among Tumbuka women -- Of chameleons and clowns: the case of Jack Mapanje
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White, Landeg
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081391339X
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9780813913407
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